David Ibata reports: A Sandy Springs man is in Fulton County Jail, charged with more than 100 counts of identity theft, after police investigating the odor of burning marijuana discovered much more than pot in the man’s apartment, authorities said. […] Investigators spotted a notebook containing people’s names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and PIN…
Author: Dissent
Judge: Comerica must pay company hit in phishing attack
David Ashenfelter reports on a ruling in a case with potentially huge implications, EMI v. Comerica (past coverage): Comerica bank must reimburse a Sterling Heights sheet metal company $561,000 it lost in an Internet phishing attack, a federal judge has ruled in what may be the first such case nationally to be tried to a…
Spartanburg hospital, police keeping quiet on details of stolen laptop investigation
Stephen Largen provides an update on a breach mentioned previously on this blog: Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System and the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office are keeping many of the details of an ongoing investigation into a stolen laptop computer secret from the public. The laptop was reported stolen from an SRHS employee’s vehicle in late March…
NZ: Labour Leaks — How I did it
While LulzSec has been making child’s play of Sony’s security, a blogger named Cameron Slater (WhaleOil) has been embarrassing the heck out of the National Labour Party in New Zealand. In the last two days, he has written more about their breach mentioned previously on this blog: Labour and their proxy bloggers have been telling a…
Missing: Laptop with 8.6million medical records
Mike Sullivan reports on a huge data breach in the UK: A laptop holding the medical records of eight MILLION patients has gone missing. The computer vanished from an NHS building in the biggest-ever security breach of its kind. It went missing three weeks ago but has only just been reported to police. The unencrypted…
The Ingenious Infiltration of Citigroup
John Hudson writes: An IT expert speaking with The New York Times called it a Mission Impossible-like operation. Last month, a team of unidentified hackers accessed information to 200,000 Citigroup bank accounts by simply waltzing through the “front door” of Citigroup’s customer website. The bank came under fire last week for waiting nearly a month before notifying customers…